How popular is the name Marybeth?

Marybeth ranks 1,394th among girls' names in US records, with 10,241 births since 1909. Over the past decade it accounts for 169.

Is Marybeth a unisex name?

No. Marybeth is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1961, when 488 children were given the name. It has been in use for 116 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#1,394 of girl names

Pronounced M EH1 R IY0 B EH1 TH (ARPABET)

Marybeth is a girls' name, and first appears in 1909. It has been given to 10,241 children — the 1,394th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 169 births across the past decade, against a peak of 488 in a single year. That peak was in 1961.

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Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Marybeth?: Marybeth ranks 1,394th among girls' names in US records, with 10,241 births since 1909. Over the past decade it accounts for 169.
Is Marybeth a unisex name?: No. Marybeth is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Marybeth most popular?: 1961, when 488 children were given the name. It has been in use for 116 years and is still recorded as of 2024.